In the days after the curse is enacted, the Evil Queen lives as the mayor of Storybrooke, Regina, and while at first pleased with the other residents' miseries, she grows bored with her new life. One flaw in creating Storybrooke is it becomes visible to outsiders, and when two strangers, Kurt and Owen, arrive in town, Regina attempts to usher their leaving. Eventually, she takes a liking to Owen and wishes for him to stay, although Kurt refuses. Through her manipulation, Sheriff Graham arrests Kurt, who flees Storybrooke with his son, however, they are caught at the town border. While Kurt surrenders himself, Owen escapes town, with Regina's permission. Later, she kills Kurt and buries him in the woods. ("Welcome to Storybrooke")

Eighteen years later, Regina adopts a baby boy, who she names Henry. When he shows signs of possible illness, she sleuths for information on his birth parents, eventually learning his birth mother is Emma Swan, the prophesied savior. After deciding to keep Henry as her son, Regina drinks a memory potion to forget his birth mother's identity. ("Save Henry")

Henry, at ten years old, gains a fairytale book from his teacher as a means to inspire hope in his life. Within its pages, he finds a photo of Snow White and Prince Charming's infant daughter and mysteriously realizes her name is Emma. Coming to believe Storybrooke is under the Evil Queen's curse, Henry brings Emma to Storybrooke, and she later stays in town out of concern for his happiness. With her arrival, the curse gradually weakens and time begins to move forward again. After a few days, Emma becomes a sheriff's deputy, and after the sheriff's death, she gains her predecessor's job. As sheriff, she is unknowingly reuniting people who would otherwise be separated due to the curse's effects. ("Going Home", "Pilot", "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter")

The town becomes rocked by a scandal when Mary Margaret's affair with David is made public. Kathryn, David's wife, opts to allow them to be together as she decides to leave for Boston. Regina, unwilling to let the lovers be happy, sets up Mary Margaret for Kathryn's death, leading to her arrest when evidence is found. With help from August, Emma figures out Regina's plot, just before Kathryn is found alive after being secretly freed by Mr. Gold. To make Emma accept her role as curse savior, August attempts to make her believe in magic, but she refuses. Believing Regina is dangerous, Emma then tries leaving town with Henry, but the boy persuades her out of it. Regina, on the other hand, extracts a poisoned apple from the past Enchanted Forest, in a bid to get rid of Emma. However, Henry ends up eating it, falling into a coma, and later dying. In a final farewell, Emma kisses his forehead, accidentally emitting true love's kiss, which breaks his curse as well as the Dark Curse. As everyone regains memories of their past lives, Mr. Gold combines a bottle of true love, Mr. Gold combines it with well water to bring magic into Storybrooke. ("What Happened to Frederick", "Red-Handed", "The Stable Boy", "The Stranger", "An Apple Red as Blood")

After First Curse

August sends Neal a postcard from Storybrooke. The purple fog clears, and Mary Margaret and David reunite as Snow White and Prince Charming and finally meet their daughter Emma. Meanwhile, Mr. Gold, who is fierce because Regina kept Belle in psychiatric ward for 28 years, summon a Wraith to have Regina suck by it. To stop it from destroying Storybrooke, Regina, Emma, Mary Margaret and David reunite and try to send it to Enchanted Forest through Jefferson's Hat. The hat does not work until Emma touches Regina. The Wraith is sucked in while grabbing Emma and forcing her into the vortex. Mary Margaret jumps in after her. David and Regina are left behind. ("Broken")

In the fallowing days, David and Henry try to find a way to bring back Emma and Mary Margaret. While they deal with Hook, who wants to kill Mr. Gold for killing his love, and Cora who wants to get back to her daughter, thanks to Aurora, she and Henry can communicate in Netherworld because they were both under the sleeping curse once and this is a side affect. In Storybrooke, Mr. Gold doesn't want Cora to come back because he thinks she is a threat for everyone but Regina believes in Henry about Emma and Mary Margaret coming in here instead of Cora. So with the help of Regina, they come back to Storybrooke. But in the meantime, Hook and Cora found a way to get to Storybrooke, too. And his ship sails through the gloom with Cora aboard. ("Queen of Hearts", "We Are Both", "The Crocodile", "Tallahassee", "Into the Deep")

After Regina was suspected for killing Archie, which in the reality Cora disguised herself as Regina and killed someone else and make him look like Archie; Emma, Mary Margaret and David do not believe Regina so with that way Cora gets what she wants. İn the meantime Mr. Gold wants to find his son. With the help of Emma's unpaid favor, she, Henry and Mr. Gold head to New York City. However, they find out that Mr. Gold's son Baelfire is also Henry's father Neal. ("The Price of Gold", "The Cricket Game", "Tiny", "Manhattan")

While they are still in New York, Hook found them and stabs Mr. Gold with his poison laced hook. The only way to save Mr. Gold's life is to get back to Storybrooke as soon as possible. Emma receives news from Mary Margaret and David via phone about Regina and Cora's search for the dagger. After they come back to Storybrooke, the war begins and Cora gets closer to stab Mr. Gold with the dagger and become the new Dark One. As Mr. Gold manipulates Mary Margaret to kill Cora with the enchanted candle that could restore Mr. Gold's life by taking Cora's, she immediately regrets for what she did. However, Cora dies before Mary Margaret is able to do something. ("The Queen Is Dead", "The Miller's Daughter")

The outsider who entered Storybrooke a few days ago comes more suspicious. Meanwhile , Neal invites her fiance Tamara to Storybrooke so she can properly meet and speak with Emma and Henry. Greg had a run-in with Regina at the diner. She cannot seem to understand why he is so familiar to her, but shows up at his guest room with the realization he is Owen. Demanding to know where his father is, Regina plays it off that she let Kurt leave town and never saw him again. He doesn't believe her. Before August reverted back to child, he was trying to warn them about a woman which they'll find later that this woman is Tamara and Greg and Tamara work together for Home Office and they came to Storybrooke to get rid of the magic but then realized something more valuable : Henry. In the meantime Tamara shoots Neal and with the magic bean he goes back to the Enchanted Forest. As Greg and Tamara take Henry to Neverland; Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Regina, Mr. Gold and Hook set on a mission to rescue Henry. ("The Outsider", "Welcome to Storybrooke", "Selfless, Brave and True", "And Straight On 'Til Morning")

After they went, the residents of Storybrooke activate a cloaking spell, which Mr. Gold gave it to Belle just before he leaves, around the city limits; however, two mysteriousstrangers arriving from Minnesota in a convertible manage to cross the town border just in time. ("And Straight On 'Til Morning", "Dark Hollow"

Five days later, a mermaid known as Ariel emerges from the ocean. She has been sent on a mission by Mr. Gold, to retrieve a magical weapon from his pawnshop. Ariel seeks out Belle, and together, they find what Ariel is looking for: Pandora's Box. Before Ariel is able to leave with the item, the two strangers, who are revealed to be John and Michael Darling, overpower the women and steals Pandora's Box from them. Fortunately, Ariel and Belle are able to break free, just in time to stop the brothers from destroying Gold's weapon. After she hears their story, Belle convinces the brothers that the box is the only way to stop Peter Pan and free their sister, Wendy Darling, who has been Pan's prisoner for over a century. Ariel leaves for Neverland, taking Pandora's Box with her. ("Dark Hollow")

As Ariel returns to Storybrooke and reunite with her true love, Henry and rest of crew return From Neverland. Unbeknown to them, Peter Pan switched his body with Henry who is now trapped inside Pandora's Box along the way. When they realize that Henry is actually Peter Pan, they head to Regina's Heart Vault where Mr. Gold notices something is missing : The Dark Curse. Shortly afterward, Pan activates it with the heart of the thing he loves most. Regina learns that in order to undo Pan's curse, she must destroy the scroll. Mr. Gold manages to return Henry and Pan to their respective bodies, by using the wand of the Black Fairy. However, Pan has one last trick up his sleeve, and quickly overpowers Gold. In order to save his family, Gold kills his father by stabbing him with the Dark One's Dagger, sacrificing his own life in the process. As Pan's curse approaches, Regina realizes that destroying the scroll comes at a heavy price: Storybrooke will be erased from the map, and everyone will be transported back to the Enchanted Forest, prevented from ever returning — except Emma and Henry. At the town border, Emma and Henry say their goodbyes to their friends and family. Regina tells Emma that when the curse is undone, the memories Emma and Henry have from Storybrooke will be gone. She gives Emma a gift: New memories of a happy life, where Emma never gave up Henry for adoption, so they'll have always been together. Emma and her son drive across the town border just as the magic fog closes in on their family. Storybrooke vanishes from the world.[1]("The New Neverland", "Going Home")

During Second Curse

After a year, Snow White recasts the Dark Curse, bringing everyone back to Storybrooke, but due to the Wicked Witch's machinations, they forget the past year in the Enchanted Forest. The only clue, as proof a year has gone by, is Mary Margaret's pregnancy. The Wicked Witch, brought along by the curse, blends into town as a midwife named Zelena. In her farm cellar, she keeps a revived Mr. Gold as her prisoner. Through some means, she also causes some of the townspeople to vanish and turns them into her pet monkeys. Regaining her lost memories with Hook's aid, Emma returns to town, where she teams up with Regina to sleuth out the curse caster, who manages to escape before they apprehend her. After David and Hook witness someone turning into a flying monkey, it is believed the Wicked Witch cast the new curse. ("New York City Serenade", "Witch Hunt")

Zelena, desiring to change her past with a time spell, requires several ingredients; Mary Margaret's child, David's courage, Regina's heart and Mr. Gold's brain. After Zelena collects David's courage, Mr. Gold escapes and reverts to Neal. Following recovery at the hospital, Neal helps Emma look for Mr. Gold, not knowing he and his father are in the same body. Upon realizing the truth, he begs Emma to separate him from Mr. Gold's body, although it'll kill him, so his father can reveal the Wicked Witch's true name. After being exposed, Zelena escapes and reappears at the diner during a funeral wake for Neal, where she reveals herself as Regina's half-sister and challenges her to a duel. There, she fails to steal Regina's heart, which has already been removed and placed under Robin Hood's care. Threatened by Emma's light magic, Zelena curses Hook's lips so he can take away her powers, and not if, the savior's family will die. Desperate to break the curse, Emma attempts to make Henry believe in magic by giving him the storybook. From touching it, he regains his lost memories, but it is Regina's true love for him, which breaks the curse. ("The Tower", "Quiet Minds", "It's Not Easy Being Green", "The Jolly Roger")

After Second Curse

After Regina broke the curse, the crew finally defeat her, remove her necklace and put her in jail. When Mr. Gold arrives the Sheriff's Station, he tells her that Neal died because of her, he promised him to have his revenge and Rumpelstilstkin never breaks a deal. He stabs her with the dagger. Her body transforms into a statue, which he shatters into pieces. Unbeknownst to him, Zelena's life force flees her body before it shatters, and activates the time spell. Afterwards, Emma and Hook suckes up by the time portal. While they try to find a way to get back to present time, they meet a woman who was almost executed by The Evil Queen. They agree with bringing her with them too. But a revised Zelena has already killed her and took her form. Later it's found that this woman is the wife of Robin Hood who is with Regina now but none of them knows that Marian is actually Zelena. She angrly pisses off Emma. In the meantime, they brought someone else from the past too. ("Kansas (Episode)", "Snow Drifts", "There's No Place Like Home", "Heart of Gold")

The Ice Queen, has arrived in Storybrooke. Leaving a trail of ice behind her, she emerges from the barn and slowly makes her way into the town. Then she cast a giant ice wall all around Storybrooke until she finds her sister, Anna. The next day Emma and others find her and realize that she doesn't remember how she got here and she just looks for her sister, then they agree to help her. But The Snow Queen a.k.a. Ingrid is their big threat now. In the meantime Regina and Henry are now working together to find the author to make him to change the fate where villains always lose. After a couple of days, when Emma and Hook are watching Emma's video tape, they notice that Ingrid was Emma's foster mother and Emma does not remember any of this. In the meantime, now Gold found the Sorcerer's Hat, he plans to use it for freeing himself from the dagger with the help of Hook whose heart was ripped out by Mr. Gold. But then they realize that Ingrid is up to something : The Spell of Shattered Sight. With it, everyone will begin to see the worst in their loved ones and turn on each other, destroying themselves. After the arrival of Anna and her fiancee Kristoff, they understand that the only way this spell breaks is Ingrid's death. But with Ingrid finally seeing what her sister thought about her after Ingrid accidently killed her other sister, she realizes what she has done and sacrificed herself in order to break the spell. But before that, she gave Emma and Elsa's memory. After that Elsa, Anna and Kristoff return their home, Arendelle. ("A Tale of Two Sisters", "White Out", "Rocky Road", "The Snow Queen", "Smash the Mirror", "Fall","Shattered Sight", "Heroes and Villains")

With "Marian"s sickness relapses because of Ingrid, Regina sees the only way she can live is Robin Hood, Roland and Marian leave the town. Robin kisses Regina and says goodbye to her one last time. ("Heroes and Villains")

While Mr. Gold is almost achieving to get free from his dagger, Belle finds him and with the power of the dagger, she commands Mr. Gold to leave the town. ("Heroes and Villains")

While Emma, Mary Margaret, Regina, Hook and Belle are trying to defeat the Chernabog who they accidently let out from the Sorcerer's Hat, Mr. Gold and Ursula reunite with Cruella De Vil. After they help the heroes about the Chernabog crisis, Emma and the others let them in to Storybrooke. But unbeknown to them, Ursula and Cruella let Mr. Gold in, too. Two days later, Mr. Gold, Ursula and Cruella team up and resurrect Maleficent from her ashes with the help of the bloods whose belong to Mary Margaret and David who wronged to Maleficent in the past by having her lose her child. After ursula reunites with her father and goes back to the Enchanted Forest, the crew understand that Mr. Gold is trying to fill Emma's heart with darkness. To stop it, they need the Author. After they free him from the book, he quickly runs away but then Mr. Gold convinces him to write a happy ending for him. With Cruella kidnapping Henry, Regina desists on the mission which rescuing Robin Hood from her sister Zelena just for now and focuses on saving Henry with Emma. After Emma kills Cruella, which means Mr. Gold gets closer to have what he wants, Emma goes with Regina to find Maleficent's daughter and also her former friend Lily. After they convince her to come back to Storybrooke, the trio head to Cassidy Apartment where Robin and "Marian" lives now. After Regina's long insestences, Zelena finally reveals herself and says that she's pregnant. The next day they all head back to Storybrooke. Emma finally forgives her parents for hiding the truth about Emma's darkness. In the meantime Lily reunites with her mother and decides to stay for a week. But at the same time, The Author, Isaac, starts to write a storybook where villans win the day. ("Darkness on the Edge of Town", "Unforgiven", "Poor Unfortunate Soul", "Best Laid Plans", "Sympathy for the De Vil")

With Mother Superior's help, the Apprentice, who was sucked by the Sorcerer's Hat because of Hook who was Mr. Gold's control back then, is freed from it. In a race to stop Isaac from changing their stories, Emma, Regina and the Apprentice run to the pawnshop to confront the Author. However, Isaac rewrites new lives for everyone in his book, "Heroes and Villains", before they can stop him. ("Operation Mongoose Part 1")

During Alternate Reality

Henry finds himself completely alone in Storybrooke. Desperate, he searches for his family outside of town and eventually tracks down Isaac, and learns from him that everyone is another storybook. Henry uses the door illustration key on the "Heroes and Villains storybook", and both are sucked into the story. ("Operation Mongoose Part 1")

Before Third Curse

After Henry undoes what Isaac did and reverts everything to normal, he becomes the new author, but after realizing that the power to change reality is too much for anyone to have, Henry snaps the magic quill in half. With Mr. Gold's near demise, the Apprentice absorbs the darkness in his heart and traps it in the hat, but the dark power escapes. Before the Apprentice passes out, he tells them the Sorcerer's name is Merlin and they mus find him. To save everyone, Emma allows the darkness into her body, causing her to become the new Dark One. ("Operation Mongoose Part 2")

After Mr. Gold kills his mother, the curse is broken. Gideon confronts Emma and Henry at the Mayor's office. After trapping Gideon in Regina's office, Emma and Henry escape. After they escape onto the street, Emma and Henry run into Mary Margaret, David, Regina, Zelena, and Hook, who had just made it back from the nearly decimated Enchanted Forest. Gideon then arrives and takes Mary Margaret hostage, demanding that Emma fight him. Meanwhile, as the fight rages on, Belle and Mr. Gold search in the mines in an attempt to find Gideon's heart and stop him from trying to kill Emma. As she is fighting Gideon, Emma realizes that the only way to prevent the darkness from winning is to sacrifice herself and let Gideon kill her. When she does, Henry kisses her and revives her while Belle and Mr. Gold find Gideon, who has reverted back to being a baby, giving their family a chance at a fresh start. ("The Final Battle Part 2")

Tilly and Margot arrive in Storybrooke to get help to save Henry, Jacinda, and Lucy. When they do arrive, they almost run over Leroy, causing him to drop several orders of grilled cheeses. They are then confronted by Granny, Archie, Leroy, Doc and Walter who demand that they explain what is going on. After Margot and Tilly do, everyone else does not believe them and chase them away. A short while later, Margot and Tilly spot Zelena driving Regina's car to take a younger Robin to daycare. They are able to convince her to give them a magic bean to go to the Wish Realm to save them.("Leaving Storybrooke")

Note:No number indicator This individual came to Storybrooke via the first Curse
2 This individual came to Storybrooke via the second Curse
3 This individual came to Storybrooke via the third Curse
º This individual came to Storybrooke by means other than the Dark Curse
†: This individual is deceased
^ This individual left Storybrooke willingly
x This individual left Storybrooke unwillingly
i This individual was brought to Storybrooke as an inanimated figure, such as statue, puppet or corpse
u It is currently unknown how this person came to Storybrooke

1: The Storybrooke Pet Shelter is replaced on the set by Any Given Sundae from "White Out".2: Any Given Sundae is replaced by the The Three Bears Day Spa from "Street Rats".3: La Tandoor is replaced by Duperré & Hughes in "Broken". In "A Tale of Two Sisters", Chop Shop has also become part of the building.4: This business name never appears on-screen.5: The "Hats" sign can only be be glimpsed on-screen in "The Thing You Love Most"[119] and "The Price of Gold";[120] however, only the H and the T, and parts of the middle letters, as well as additional signage saying "[obscured] away" and "sample styles", can be seen.6: Hats is replaced by an unidentified dental clinic in "We Are Both" (it can also be seen in "The Thing You Love Most", even though the hat store was glimpsed earlier in the episode). The dental clinic bears the same sign as the real-life Harmony Dental Studio in Steveston Village.[121] However, only the word "Dental" can be clearly deciphered on-screen.7: For the sixth season, a portable pawnshop set is put up in the lane next to It's POSH!,[122] the building that previously doubled as the pawnshop;[123] meaning that It's POSH! is now a separate business located next to the pawnshop.8: Rowan Books is part of the Storybrooke Main Street set built at The Bridge Studios,[58] but does not exist in Steveston Village.[124] Therefore, it can only be seen from the inside of Granny's Diner, because the interior scenes at the diner are filmed on the Main Street set. Rowan Books does not appear in exterior scenes. Read the Goofs section for more details.9: Storybrooke Liquor became the Storybrooke Hotel for the filming of "Souls of the Departed", "The Final Battle Part 1" and "The Final Battle Part 2".[101] However, the business does not show up on-screen.10: Worthington's Haberdashery is replaced by the Storybrooke Pet Shelter in "Red-Handed".11: This business appeared on a Historical Storybrooke prop sign created for the episode "Lacey". It was up for one day's shoot in February 2013.[125] The sign can be spotted in the episode, but it is too far away to read.[126] The map was put up again in September 2016, for the filming of an episode for the first half of Season Six,[127] but did not appear on-screen.

Also, every other way that can be used in a magical location is possible due to the location being a magical one after the First Dark Curse. (For more information, see World-crossing.)

Trivia

On-screen Notes

The town's name is a pun on "storybook".

Storybrooke functions as a consolidated city-county, a US municipality with the combined authority of a county and city. This is evidenced in various ways:

Graham, and later Emma Swan, is Sheriff of Storybrooke County:[128] a county sheriff in the US is an elected official with the highest police authority in a county. Storybrooke's police cruisers also reflect this office. ("Desperate Souls")

Storybrooke's Sheriff also maintains the duties of a chief of police, a generally appointed official with the highest police authority in a city. This is also reflected on the cruisers, which bear the town's seal.

Mayor Regina Mills had the authority to appoint a candidate for election to the office of Sheriff. (Many Sheriff's elections are conducted with one candidate in the US, however they are generally not appointed). A city's chief of police is generally appointed by the city's mayor. ("Desperate Souls")

According to show creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, Storybrooke is meant to be timeless, which is why it has cell phones and computers, but also old phones and older cars. It is meant to look timeless, like a mix of everything.[129]

Among the numerous streets listed on the map, is one called Westlake Street; a reference to Neil Westlake, a graphic designer and production staff member on the show. ("Lacey")

Rowan Hill is mentioned on a prop sign created for the episode "The Snow Queen", which reveals that the scene where Emma is sitting alone in her car at night takes place in Rowan Hill Park.[139] However, the sign does not appear on-screen.

An online Instagram post shows more of the map[141] and reveals yet another location: Maple Bog. A street name Goldman Road can also be seen, a reference to Mark Goldman, editor on the show, and the one who provided the voice of Sven.

The storefront next to the pet shelter changes as well, beginning as the actual La Tandoor restaurant in Steveston Village (which is now closed)[161] in the Season One episodes "Pilot",[162] "The Thing You Love Most",[145] "Snow Falls", "The Price of Gold",[146] "The Shepherd",[163] "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter",[53] "True North",[164] "7:15 A.M.",[165] "Skin Deep",[166] and "What Happened to Frederick",[150] and the 2001 flashbacks from the Season Three episode "Save Henry".[152] The business becomes the Duperré & Hughes law firm in Season Two.[43] In "Season Four, Chop Shop has also moved into the same building,[167] but it is missing in the 1993 flashbacks from "Awake",[168] since this episode takes place 19 years earlier. The original La Tandoor sign can also be seen in an exterior shot in stock footage in the Season Four episode "Lily".[160]

La Tandoor and Worthington's Haberdashery can also be seen in an exterior shot in Underbrooke in "Ruby Slippers",[169] where stock footage from the first season seems to have been used; even though previous episodes have established that the storefronts next to the Underbrooke Diner are the Underworld versions of Chop Shop, Duperré & Hughes and Any Given Sundae.[170]

Production Notes

The Storybrooke Clock Tower does not exist within the real Steveston and is added to location filming using optical effects.[171]

When asked what plan they would use if there was a potential Season Eight, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis explain that they "would have probably returned to Storybrooke and done something there...".[172]

When Hook and Emma have their first date, the waiters are dressed like Tony, the kelner from Lady and the Tramp, and according to the menu, the restaurant itself is called Tony's.[182] The candles in a bottle and the table cloths[183] are similar to the ones seen in the famous movie scene. ("The Apprentice")

There are ships in bottles in the pawnshop[212] and the lounge at the inn.[213]("True North", "Witch Hunt")

There is a miniature rudder in the pawnshop[214] and on the mantelpiece in the lounge at the inn.[213] The pawnshop also contains a real ship's rudder.[195] Storybrooke Country Bread has a ship's steering wheel on display in the window.[55] (This is an actual part of a real location known as Romania Country Bread.)[215] There is an engraving of a ship's rudder on a cupboard in Regina's living room.[216]("The Shepherd", "The Stranger", "We Are Both", "Witch Hunt")

A canoe hangs from the ceiling in the pawnshop.[217] An old, weathered row boat filled with plants is used as a decoration in the yard next to Granny's Diner.[218] (In real life, the boat is sitting next to the Cannery Cafe, which doubles as Granny's Diner for the show.[219]) ("The Thing You Love Most", "The Shepherd")

The mayor's office[230] and the town hall[231] have birch-tree wallpaper. There are matching birch tree logs by the mayor's fireplace.[230] A leaf-shaped bowl is sitting on a table in the mayor's office.[230]("The Thing You Love Most", "Broken")

Archie has green stripes on his office walls tapestry.[232] This is a subtle a reference to his former life as a cricket; crickets live among the grass. Above the green, there is wallpaper which depicts a forest at sundown. The trees are well above eye-level;[233] fitting for a former cricket. Fittingly enough, at eye level, there are mushroom ornaments on Archie's bookshelves.[234]("The Thing You Love Most", "The Cricket Game")

In the pawnshop, actual birch trunks are scattered around as dividers.[237] The wall behind the main counter has crenelated "windows" which are full of paintings of trees and woods.[238][239] Similar paintings can be seen in other parts of the shop. A leaf-print curtain[240] separates the front room from the back of the shop. ("The Shepherd", "Desperate Souls", "The Return", "We Are Both")

The Storybrooke Pet Shelter has silvery forest wallpaper on the counter and behind the counter,[243] and tree silhouettes on the window panes.[243][244] Above the fish tank, there is a framed picture of a winter woods scene, with birch trees.[243] Real birch tree trunks are used as decorations.[245]("7:15 A.M.", "Red-Handed", "The Return")

Goofs

When Emma and Henry first arrive in Storybrooke in "Pilot", Steveston Village, which doubles as the town of Storybrooke on the show, has not been redressed for some of the shots. The following real-life Steveston business names appear on-screen: Pacific Net & Twine,[264] Romania Country Bread[264] Serenity,[265] Nikaido[265] and Splash.[265] In addition, the prop sign on the building that doubles as Mr. Gold's pawnshop for exterior scenes has not been put up.[266] However, in a different shot, the sign on Serenity is gone (but not replaced), and Nikaido has been transformed into Standard Clocks.[144] In "The Thing You Love Most", the local businesses have been redressed and transformed. Pacific Net & Twine has become Atlantic Twine & Net,[39] Romania Country Bread has become Storybrooke Country Bread,[55] Serenity has become Modern Fashions[55] and Splash has become Neighbors.[56]

When Graham offers Emma a new job, the sign on the building behind Emma says Storybrooke Coffee Co.[62] However, when Graham gets out on the police car, you can clearly see a circular sign on the side of the building, which says "Steveston Coffee Co".[299]("The Price of Gold")

When Graham offers Emma the job as deputy sheriff, as he says, "Why don't you think about it", in the background, you can see the name "Steveston" on the sign of a business next to Kisamos Greek Taverna.[300]("The Price of Gold")

In "The Price of Gold", as Emma and Henry cross the street after leaving the loft, in the background, you can see a real-life business called Steveston WineMakers.[40]

Curiously, the business next to it, which is known as Budget Appliances in real-life Steveston Village,[301] has, unlike its neighbor, been renamed for this episode (it is now called Bravura Appliances[40]).

In the Season Four episode "Lily", the businesses known as Worthington's Haberdashery and LaTandoor are seen next to Granny's Diner.[160] However, Worthington's Haberdashery had moved out of the building midways through Season One[305] and Any Given Sundae was clearly established as occupying these premises in episodes before and after;[306] while Duperre & Hughes moved into La Tandoor's old premises back in Season Two,[43] and was still there in episodes before and after "Lily".[306]

After Mr. Gold and his team leave the Blanchard Loft in "Best Laid Plans", a direction sign pointing to "Steveston General Store - second hand goods" can be seen on a building.[307] This is a real business in Steveston Village,[308] the town which doubles as Storybrooke on the show.

In the 1993 flashbacks from "Awake", the business known as Duperre & Hughes can be seen next to Granny's Diner.[168] However, as seen in "Broken", Duperre & Hughes did not move into these premises until after the Dark Curse was broken in 2012.[43] Before that, these premises were occupied by the restaurant known as LaTandoor.[53] This is most likely because LaTandoor, a real life business in Steveston Village which has since been closed down,[161] could not be used when Steveston Village was redressed as Storybrooke for the 1993 flashback, so they had to use a fictional business instead.

Other Notes

Sara's Ice Cream is a real-life Steveston Village business that features Once Upon a Time inspired ice cream names and flavors such as Once Upon a Thyme, Cinderella's Carriage, Entirely Emma, Mr. Gold and Grumpy's Road.[311][312]

Additionally, another Steveston business, Candy Dish, sells Once Upon a Time inspired sweets such as Snow White Fudge, Prince Charming Chocolate Sword and Evil Queen Apple.[313]

Also located in Steveston, Juvelisto jewelry shop sells replicas of the Evil Queen's ring,[311] which are crafted by Canadian-based designer Leanne Guthrie Johnston.[314]

See also

References

↑Emma then returns to Storybrooke a year later. In "The Tower", which takes place in 2013, David states that it's been almost 30 years since Emma was born. This means that less than a year passes between "Pilot", where Emma, in October 2011 ("Selfless, Brave and True"), turns 28, and "Going Home"; even though Regina says that "these last years" in Storybrooke will be gone from Emma and Henry's memories (although this would be correct when it comes to Henry, who has been living in Storybrooke for his whole life).

Photograph of prop from "The Shepherd"; the church is mentioned in the article "Storybrooke Teens Plan Clothing Swap Event for Charity", while Storybrooke County Soil and Water, and Lake Storybrooke Association, are mentioned in the article "Town plants gardens to absorb storm water".

Photograph of prop from "Desperate Souls", where Storybrooke Forest Service, Storybrooke Builders and Storybrooke Mill are mentioned in the article "Beetle-killed lumber being used in home construction"; while Skylark Rose Garden is mentioned in the article "Municipal Rose Garden: Gazebo Vandalized"

↑Lawrence Andreutti. Once Upon a Time set photos from Greenwood Park, North Vancouver, BC (Rowan Hill Park) taken on September 25, 2014. (September 25, 2014). Retrieved on May 24, 2019. (archive copy created on March 19, 2017)